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FRIDAY ETEXIXG. OCTOBER 10.
If on our daily course our nmd
Be set to hallow all we find,
New treasures still, of countless prices,
God will pro-vide for sacrifice.
—John Kreble.
HARRISBCRG O. K.
MORE and more the people of
Harrisburg are learning' to ap
preciate the sensible and prac
tical character of the administration
of the city's affairs for the past several
years. When we read that some cities
no larger than Harrisburg are swamp
ed by debt without any resulting bene
fit and that other cities are somnolent
and indifferent to existing conditions,
we are forced to conclude that this
good old town got awake in time to
avoid the disaster of dead rot.
Our attention has just been called
to an official statement by the presi
dent of the Board of Aldermen of Nor
folk, a city of the size of Harrisburg,
but which lacks almost all of the civic
improvements we have, despite a large
and growing public debt. The state
ment follows:
Our city government is costing us
this year nearly $1,800,000, of which
amount about $ 150,000 will be re
quired to pay the interest, etc., on
the city's bonded indebtedness of
over $9,000,000. Each year, for the
past eight years, the operating ex
benses of the city of Norfolk have
increased at the rate of about SIOO,-
000. And, during this period it has
also been necessary to use funds
derived from bonds to meet current
city expenses. In other words,
Norfolk's public debt has grown
nearly $500,000 each year since
1907-08. without adequate material
returns.
This is a lamentablcshowingforacity
capable of better things and whose
opportunities are potential. Surely
we have reason to congratulate our
selves as citizens of Harrisburg upon
the fine showing of our own finances
and the splendid reports that have
followed the co-operation of our
people in making a better and more
wholesome city for the entire com
munity. Secretary McColgin, of the
Chamber of Commerce, referring to
the situation at Norfolk, observes:
We should all feel very fortunate
that Harrisburg has not gotten into
this sort of condition, and I hope
that the people in future will guard
Its conduct as ably as they have in
the past.
It is gratifying, indeed, to realize
that in all the wonderful progress of
Harrisburg there has been no waste
fulness or graft or anything to bring
discredit upon the city. It has been a
cohesive and public-spirited movement
from the start to the present and un
less we greatly mistake the temper of
the people the end is not yet.
Republican candidates and active
workers of the party will have a con
ference at the headquarters of the
county committee in the Wyetli build
ing to-night. So strong and overwhelm
ing is the Republican sentiment
throughout the city and county that all
intelligent observer." of political condi
tions anticipate with confidence « big
victory in November. Everywhere
throughout the country Republicans
are preparing for the nation-wide cam
paign of next year when visionaries
and Incompetents will be sent to the
rear at Washington and elsewhere.
Businessmen and worklngmen are
united as they have never been united
before in the interest of a more pros
perous and contented era.
LTXCH, TAYT/OR AX I) BOWMAN'
WHILE their partisan critics are
throwing stones in the back
yards of City Commissioners
Taylor, Lynch and Bowman these
officials are going ahead with the
things that the people want done in
a practical and commonsense way.
When we read of the backwardness
of other cities and how they are look
ing toward Harrisburg as an exemplar
of the best type of municipal spirit
and progress, it is hard to realize that
right here at home are people who for
potttlcal purposes will endeavor
belittle and discredit the public ser
vice of those who have honestly
striven to give the community the
best th&t is in them in the discharge
of their public duties. Isn't it aboHt
tlm« to forget the pettiness of poli
tics and selfish considerations which so
often control in campaigns and bestow
upon th«se men and others like them
the praise they deserve when they
do good work?
It is so common to criticise instead
FREDAY EVENING,
of commend that even good citizens
find themselves drifting with the tide
of opposition when they should be
standing up and supporting the men
who are in public place through the
votes of the people.
If these Republican councilmen have
been guilty of any misdemeanor In
office or have failed to properly dis
charge their important duties, then
they should be defeated; but their
critics are urging their defeat simply
upon the score of individual prefer
ence and without any other reason to
justify their action.
Commissioners Bowman, Taylor and
Lynch have demonstrated their capa
city for hard work, and those who
have been in touch with what has
been going on during the last two
years are satisfied that these three
men have accomplished much in the
interest of the taxpayers.
If there is anything in the principle
of civil service, this trio of public
officials should be given an opportun
ity to demonstrate still further their
usefulness. They have learned
through experience what is needed and
it would seem folly to displace them
simply for the sake of change.
Most people are beginning to under
stand that the constant clamor for
change of this or change of that is a
symptom only of discontent without
excuse or justification.
If others in the field are better
qualified to discharge the duties of
the three Important departments now
supervised by Commissioners Lynch,
Taylor and Bowman, they should have
the support of the voters, but the
people ought to first determine through
personal Investigation whether there
is any good reason to further experi
ment at this time with the commis
sion form of government by Introduc
ing new officials.
Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison has re
tired as head of the city's police de
partment and will become superinten
dent of the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany's force of officers. Colonel Hutchi
son has done well under a. spineless
Mayor, who endeavored to play poli
tics at the outset of his administration
in the appointment of unfit policemen.
If the reports current at the time are
to be believed. Colonel Hutchison vig
orously protested and even threatened
to resign. Nor has he been properly
supported by Mayor Royal, whose weak
attitude toward offenders, especially in
matters of traffic and automobile regu
lations, has been recently the subject
of criticism by the Motor Club of Har
'risburg. But most people believe Colo
nel Hutchison did his best under try in is
circumstances.
AEROPLANES AND WAR
NOT many years ago the two
Wright brothers startled the
world by announcing that they
had Invented a flying machine that
would fly. Most of us had read that
story of Darius Green in our boyhood
and were skeptical, but the Wright
brothers demonstrated that they had
actually solved the problem. They
could not only fly, but could also alight
without breaking every bone in their
bodies. Now the surviving brother
has sold his interest in the Wright
aeroplane company to a big syndicate
which is going into the flying machine
bnsiness in earnest.
The great war in Europe has dem
onstrated conclusively that the aero
plane is absolutely essential to modern
warfare. It is said to be probable that
the reorganized company will go Into
the field for orders for war aeroplanes
both for the United States and the
allies.
How great is likely to be the change
in the methods of the new manage
ment from those of the old is to be in
ferred from a few interesting facts
about the Wright brothers. They
proved themselves remarkable inven
tors, dreamers, with a practical turn
of mind able to discover facts about
wind currents that had defied scientists
for centuries.
In the early days, when they were
plodding away in their bicycle shop at
Dayton or experimenting with Kliders
at Kitty Hawk, secrecy was essential.
After they had, however, evolved cer
tain principles on which all heavier
than air (lying machines are built and
had patented their ideas they still
shunned publicity. They sought to
avoid a publicity that would give ad
ditional zest to their enterprise and
really make money for themselves.
They did not want to give interviews
or to talk for publication concerning
their invention.
Both the brothers wished to avoid
anything of the nature of a circus per
formance. At no time did they really
go out to seek money. They refused
to build fast machines because in their
opinion machines built for speed were
not as safe as machines of less horse
power. At the beginning of the war
Orville Wright announced that he
would build no aeroplanes for the bel
ligerents.
There can be little doubt that
the aeroplane has revolutionized war
fare, and it may be possible that It
will tend in the future to prevent such
conflicts as those which are now de
stroying the peace of the world.
Again the dreamer has proved that
dreams often come true.
PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN
THERE is at least one hyphenated
society in this country that will
escape the criticism now so gen
j erally bestowed upon those alien or
ganizations which are endeavoring to
maintain in America a spirit of
adhesion to the fatherland without
proper appreciation of their citizen
ship in the United States.
This organization is known as the
Pennsylvania-German Soctety. At
Reading to-day Benjamin M. Nead, a
: former president of the association,
delivered an address on the Pennsyl-
I vanla-German in civil life and took
occasion to refer to the animating
principles of the organization. He
made clear in the most convincing
way that the impress of the Pennsyl
vnnia-Gerinan has been left Indelibly
upon the development of the Common
wealth and that there is no more
patriotic body of citizens anywhere to
he found.
Mr. Nead admits that the name of
the society is hyphenated, "but by no
j forced construction can It be con
j founded with other hyphenated classes
of American citizens or made to ap
• pear as a sign of divided allegiance to
j the government. Its members are all
native-born Americans and the hyphen
In Its name is a descriptive badge oi'
honor and distinction signifying the
pride we justly have In the blood and
manhood of our ancestors."
This Is a timely address and Mr.
Nead has done the worthy German
element of the population of Pennsyl
vania a service in clearing once and
for all any antagonism that might pos
sibly arise through misjudging of the
name of a society that is a credit to
the Commonwealth.
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—The blackhead epidemic that is re
ported as carrying off many New Eng
land turkeys Is not so fatal as the lost
head epidemic that is due to set In just
before Thanksgiving.
—lf the newspaper pictures are cor
rect the Kurds are a sour looking lot;
but then, maybe it's natural for a peo
ple so named to look sour.
—lmmediately following the wedding
we shall expect to sae a note In Wash
ington papers to the efTect that deco
rators have been asked to submit bids
for changes at the White House.
—All of the Carranza rebels will not
automatically become federal soldiers.
Von Hindenburg must have mislaid
the pincers with which we were told he
was about to squeeze the Russian army
some weeks back.
—Greece appears to have adopted the
motto of when in doubt don't.
EDITORIAL COriME!(T
A dead man was recently elected
Democratic committeeman in a New
York election. He will undoubtedly
prove to be an nble representative of
his party. Wilkes-Barre Evening
News.
Even the most devoted advocate of
conciliation must have a sneaking ad
miration for the man who punched a
restaurant hat boy.—New York Sun.
Those European belligerents are
bound to be comfortable. Shifting
the theater of wir to the south for the
winter will obviate the necessity for
supplies of heavier khaki. Erie
Herald.
We are for the free and unlimited
coinage of pumpkin pie at any legal
ratio, without waiting for the consent
ol any other nation. —Franklin Even
inp News.
The Hon. Henry Ford, his eye set
on the purchase of universal peace,
finds it impossible to maintain amity
in his industrial family, a grievous
thing indeed. How hard is the lot of
the amateur statesman and sociologist!
New York Sun.
When Goethals has succeeded in
finally openinK the Oaillard Cut he
should be sent to open the Dardanelles.
—New York Evening Post.
EXTERMINATING THE FLAG
[From Popular Mechanics]
If an enemy had succeeded in driv
ing the American Flag from the high
seas only a fraction as effectively as
our lawmakers have legally done, the
whole nation would be aroused and in
arms. Apparently no effort has been
neglected to make the burden of fly
ing the American Flag as heavy as
possible.
As a result the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company will very soon with
draw its ships from the transpacific
trade; and when the Great Northern
does the same, as its vessels are un
profitable, there will remain no
American transpacific line, and this
vast oceanway will be left to Japan
to claim and use. That Japan will not
be slow to seize the opportunity goes
without saying, for Japan subsidizes
the ships that fly her flag, while the
United States refuses a dollar of en
couragement and imposes restrictions
and requirements wjiich are in ef
fect a practical prohibition.
Even the Great Lakes are not im
mune; for when the idiotic LaFol
lette act takes effect next November,
the American Flag will come down
from a forest of mastheads, not to
fly again until the law is changed.
Labor unions are credited with the
conception of the LaPollette bill,
which was heralded as an act "to
promote the welfare of American sea
men," but which in its results will
promote thousands of sailors out of
a job. The Interstate Commerce
Commission has also lent a helping
hand, and the lake steamers of rail
road lines will have to tie up. Inas
much as these lines have not been
particularly profitable under fairly
good conditions in the past, it is not
to be expected navigation companies
will spring up and clamor to buy these
ships. With the close of navigation
on the Great Lakes next December,
the American Flag will be practically
exterminated on the Inland seas. The
boats will almost certainly be sold to
other countries.
What a fine thing it all is; what a
grand accomplishment; how proud we
all should be to have made it almost
a misdemeanor to fly our own flag,
and to throw so many obstacles against
its being flown from the masthead
that an owner and captain stand a
mighty good chance of going to jail
every time they do it! While almost
every other nation which has even a
few milep of seacoast is striving in
every way to encourage Its marine,
we, with the largest available seacoast
on earth, have apparently neglected
nothing to exterminate the little ma
rine we had. This country will pay
a costly penalty one of these days,
and will reap in humiliation and dis
may the bitter harvest which short
sighted and misguided politicians have
sown for us.
INSULT TO GOVERNOR
[Greensburg Tribune.]
On Wednesday of this week a
sworn statement was filed with the
post office department at Washington
in which it was advertised that Ches
ter D. Sensenich, a senator in the gen
eral assembly of this State, owned
and had under his own control a radi
cal democratic newspaper published
in Greensburg. On Thursday of this
week the following gratuitous Insult
to Martin G. Brumbaugh, governor of
this Commonwealth, was printed in
that newspaper which, according to
the affidavit, Is owned and controlled
by Senator Sensenich:
"Kost: A reputation for indepen
dence and eminent respectability.
Finder please return to Governor's
Mansion, Harriaburg, and receive a
good State job as reward."
What spite and hatred are conceal
ed in that insolent thrust at the dis
tinguished governor of our State?
What a disgusting spectacle our own
State senator presents, masquerading
as a Republican and, while wearing
the shadow blind of his own Demo
cratic paper, stabs the Republican
governor of the State in the hack, and.
;ill because the governor has refused
to be A tool to advance the cause of
Democratic self-seekers.
Away with such contemptible
scamps! Decency revolts at such
miserable methods.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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By fha Ex-Cora
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A development In the Center coun
ty judicial contest, which Is of interest
to temperance people in many coun
ties occurred yesterday when J. Ken
nedy Johnston, the temperance candi
date, quit the Held. Center contest
had attracted wide attention through
out the State and the sudden with
drawal of Johnston caused surprise.
A dispatch from Bellefonte says: "J.
Kennedy Johnston, who caine out
last week as the leader of the temper
ance and church people, withdrew
from the contest, because he says he
was not receiving' the united support
of either the Center County Temper
ance League or the churchmen who
induced him to come out. Mr. Johns
ton's withdrawal leaves the fight be
tween Judge Ellis L. Orvis and Henry
C. Qutgley, both license candidates.
I Concerning his withdrawal from the
race, Mr. Johnston says: "My mind
has not been changed one iota as to
what I consider for the best interests
of our people, but, owing to the inac
tivity of those who were presumed to
assist in the campaign in various ways,
as well as the lack of unity of purpose
of our church people, 1 deem it advis
able to withdraw from the contest,
which I hereby do, as I do not feel
warranted in attempting to carry the
burdens without a hearty co-oper
ation." The Rev. Walter Fay Carson,
head of the Temperance League, stated
that Mr. Johnston's withdrawal needs
no defense. "Personally," said the
Kev. Carson, "I feel that we have on
the one hand exacted too much of
Mr. Johnston, and on the other have
conceded too much to the opposition."
—Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 14. To ex
pedite the hearing of appeals taken by
David B. Johns, one of the candidates
on the Republican ticket at the pri
mary for the office of prothonotary,
from the recount of votes, two more
judges of Allegheny's Courts of Com
mon Pleas were put to work. The
judges are Ambrose B. Reid and James
Carpenter. Judges Shafer and Evans
will remain on duty in Room No. 2.
—The Philadelphia campaign is
starting in earnest. The Philadelphia
Press to-day says: "The Republican
Mayoralty campaign now occupies the
.stage of public interest—monopolized
by the world's series—and until the
close of the contest, Saturday, October
30, it will make up in vigor what it
may have lost in length. To-night
Thomas B. Smith, harmony candidate
for the Mayoralty, and all the other
candidates will begin their tour of the
city by attending three meetings de
signed primarily for the workers.
Meetings, however, are not to be the
only activities of the Republican or
ganization. Yesterday the committee
of thirty lawyers recently appointed
by the city committee to prevent the
illegal use of the police force in the
election, appointed a subcommittee to
formally draft an open letter to be
sent to Director of Public Safety
Dripps, Superintendent of Police Rob
inson and other officials, notifying
them that any violation of the law will
lie met with instant prosecution."
George D. Porter made his first ap
pearance as the Mayoralty candidate
of the Franklin party, of Philadelphia,
before a meeting of its city commit
tee last evening at Philadelphia and in
his address he explained that though
during the last few weeks on the
stump he had repeatedly declared him
self to be a Republican in national
politics, he did not desire to be mis
understood, because the Franklin par
ty "is fundamentally no more a Re
publican party than It is a Democra
tic party."
-—Men conversant with Cumberland
county politics have remarked upon
the utter collapse of the Democratic
campaign in that county. A few years
ago the Democrats were decidedly
militant in that county, but they seem
to have quit the game this year. The
Wetzel-Biddle judicial contest stirred
up a few old fights and the result will
probably be a Republican victory all
aJong the line.
—Over 200 ties had to be decided by
lot in Pittsburgh yesterday. This is
the largest number in any county out
side of Philadelphia.
—Perry county's district attorney
ship contest is attracting much atten
tion. The candidates are rivals of two
campaigns and are making tours of
the county and personal appeals. It
looks Republican.
—Assistant Postmaster General
Blakslee is having a hard time to
straighten out the kinks in the Demo
cratic administration of the Philadel
phia post office.
—Easton's mayoralty campaign bids
fair to be a stirring one. The two
candidates aTe former rivals.
• —Steps are being taken to start an
independent movement against Jonas
Fischer nominated for mayor of Wil
liamsport by more than fifty per cent.
—Allegheny's Democratic County
Executive Committee decided no at
tempt would be made to have one of
the Democratic candidates for county
commissioner withdraw. This wiil
mean the names of John Houlahen
and John A. Martin will be printed on
the ballot. Some effort has been made
to have Mr. Houlahen retire, but he
declined to quit the contest. The fight
in the November election on the com
missionership will come on the min
ority place. A. C. Gumbert and Frank
J. Harris, the Republican nominees,
are not expected to have any real con
test. J. Denny O'Neil has the Bull
Moose, Roosevelt Progressive and Key
stone nominations. So far he has not
indicated what he intends to do.
—Blair county Republicans expect
to elect their whole ticket with good
majorities.
—Following the meeting of the Al
legheny Democratic Executive com
mittee, County Chairman John A.
Martin announced his campaign com
mittee with James A. Clark as chair
man and H. E. Williams as secre
tary. The membership is big enough
to contain most of the Democratic vot
ers of the county. With a presidential
election coming next year and a hard
fight in prospect for the minority
county commissio'nership. the IVlartin
faction is recognizing for (he first time
the "old guard" Democrats. The cam
paign committee includes Colonel Guf
fey.
RKAL PROSPERITY
[New York Sun.]
That prosperity which comes from
a billion bushel wheat crop and a
corn harvest greater than any except
one in the country's history is of a
better quality and more enduring
benefit than any boom of stocks, how
ever feverish it may be and however
many spectacular winnings it may
record. From the farm to the con
sumer the cereals contribute to the
material well being of every man,
whatever his place in the economic
scale, substantially bettering the con
dition of transportation companies,
merchants, laborers and all the intri
cate social system that is dependent
on them.
The American farmer has produced
more wheat by 111,000,000 bushels
than the previous high mark. Corn
falls 98,00.000 bushels below its own
record, made in 1912, but the amount
is greater than that gathered in any
..other year. On this firm foundation^
1 THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
"IF THE TIDE STAYS OUT FOREVER—"
—From the Philadelphia Evening; Ledger.
THE PANAMA CANAL AT WORK
V.—Locks and Power
By Frederic J. Haskin
THE work of the locks has been
one of the most gratifying fea-
tures of the operation of the
canal to Its builders and one of the
greatest surprises to those who
watched its construction.
Long before the locks were com
pleted certain foreign engineers of the
hiphest standing and reputation pro
phesied that the giant gates would
prove too bulky for successful op
eration. Others asserted positively
that the slightest earthquake shock
would put them out of commission.
Disaster in various other forms was
confidently promised.
The locks may literally be said to
have worked without a hitch. There
has never been an accident in one of
them: there has never beeti an hour
lost by any ship because the lock ma
chinery was out of repair.
The men who work the locks have
no improvements to suggest except a
very few minor ones with regard to
the electrical connections. Before the
locks were built design after design
was drawn and cast aside. Every con
tingency was provided for, every pos
sible difficulty foreseen, and their
clock-like working to-day is the result
of this care and foresight in their
construction.
Between the two channels of each
lock, about midway their length, is a
very plain looking two-story building
of prevailing buff and red finish. This
is the brain, the directing center of
the great lift. In this building the
captain and his assistants have their
headquarters. The top floor of the
building is all one room about 60 feet
business will base itself solidly, given
decent immunity from political as
saults, if permitted to develop with
out the injudicious fostering- of dema
gogues and bumptious tinkerers with
the natural order of affairs.
The real plutocrat is the farmer:
he deserves his profits; and if Con
gress and the Legislatures will stop
meddling with the farmers' elaborate
machinery of collection, all will be
well with him and his.
The State From Day to Day]
i ■*
The kiddies of Allentown will rejoice
if the plans of the Playground Asso
ciation work out, namely, to have the
Department of Public Safety set aside
certain slopes to be made safe for
coasting purposes this winter. The
suggestion will doubtless meet with
the approval of every red-blooded boy.
Franklin and Marshall College, in
Lancaster, is proudly floating a new
and mighty banner, measuring eleven
feet in length and twenty-two in width,
from the top of the college tower.
Tuesday was a booster day for Pal
myra, when the Governor was present
and spoke at the dedication of the
new SIOO,OOO high school. It's hard
to keep up with the rapid strides
which progress is taking in our neigh
borhood.
"Guests of the county are facing
meals without spuds" is the comment
made by the Reading Herald in ex
plaining the rise in the price of pota
toes to 77 cents a bushel, which has
soared beyond the means of the pro
visioned in the Berks county jail.
Nine pigs went cheerfully to their
death, as far ns we know, at Trappe
yesterday when a trolley car struck
and killed the whole tribe. The inci
dent suggests an answer to the ancient
and honorable riddle of "What makes
more noise than a pig under a fence?"
The muzzle, license and chain busi
ness is booming in Easton, whence has
gone forth an edict to rise and wipe
out all dogs that are not muzzled,
licensed or chained.
"One thousand quarters" is the
catchy slogan which Tarentum energy
has adopted as its watchword in the
campaign for funds to defray the ex
penses of the Hallowe'en celebration.
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Chambers of Commerce all over the
State are taking up the idea of holding
get-together luncheons for the purpose
of bringing the business and profes
sional men and the merchants together
in a combined social and practical
gathering.
A 14-year-old Philadelphia youth
ha.« just been taken into custody after
having gotten away with an automo
bile in which he traveled by day and
which ho used as a sleeping car at
night, camping out within a block of
the City Hall.
Pittsburgh is imposing the fine of
$5 per wink on those fresh young
things who insist on annoying shop
girls who are trying to do their work
in the department and other stores.
Benjamin S. Bowser, ancestor
extraordinary and grandfather pleni
potentiary, died at the age of 92 in
Kittanning yesterday, leaving behind
him 15 children, 60 grandchildren, 58
great-grandchildren and 18 great
great-grandchildren.
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OCTOBER IS, 1915.
lons, and here stands one of the most
complicated and remarkable electrical
control boards in the world, it reaches
almost from end to end of the room.
Its face is a sort of map of the canal,
upon which each gate and culvert, is
represented by an actually moving
part which always registers the exact
position of Its giant counterpart in the
lock.
One Man Controls Locks
By means of this board one man
may control every part of the lock,
tell at a glance the exact position of
ships passing through it, the depth of
water in each stage and whether all
the working parts arc in perfect order.
By walking along the board and turn
ing a few brass handles the operator
at Gatun lifts the biggest ocean liner
85 feet in the air.
The lock gates upon this control
board are represented by little steel
arms. Upon each lock gate Itself
there is a small electrical motor which
is operated by the movement of the
gate. The current from this motor
actuates the arm upon the control
board, so that every move of a big
gate is instantly and accurately fol
lowed by that of its small representa
tive on the board. In addition to the
miniature gate showing the position of
the great one there are tiny red and
green lights upon the board which
change their color as the gates art
opened and closed. Thus a glance at
the board shows the exact stage of
every operation.
The culverts within the walls of the
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TETKR CART WRIGHT, AN EVAN
GELIST
Many of the older citizens have
heard of Peter Cartwright, a famous
Methodist evangelist of the last cen
tury. For 53 years this man went up
and down the country, penetrating
even into the wilds of Missouri,
preaching damnation and hell fire and
a real devil; proclaiming Christ and
Him crucified; stirring the emotions
of the people as they were never stir
red before; throwing them into
trances; baptizing them; planting
churches in the wilderness froni which
has grown the powerful Methodist
Church of to-day, and at last this
founder of Methodism died in Sanga
mon county, Illinois, and Abraham
Lincoln was among the many who
mourned at his bier.
In his autobiography Cartwright
tells that his favorite method of con
victing sinners and getting them to cry
for mercy was by "Shaking them over
hell until they smelt brimstone right
strong."
He says: "I have seen more than
one hundred sinners fall like dead men
under one powerful sermon, and I
have seen and heard more than five
hundred Christians all shouting aloud
the praises of God at once."
In matters of repartee, a word at
the right moment is worth a whole
dictionary an hour later. —Life.
! Our Daily Laugh
i ———
njcoxri.iiixi IN THE SHADE
OF A LEMON
ADE STRAW.
Tinkle, tinkle, bit
j Jiminy, but you
' I) I sound nice,
! y I IrSZrS As you clink and
I l| Iril clink and fade
j |[~i In a glass of lem-
onade!
HARD TO
DAMAGE.
I had children j|" II jljjf
in mind when I y
built these aubur
ban houses. /M
I see. And that yMu\ H
is why you made
•em of re-en- MMI
forced concrete. *" ' ■
/"T NO WONDER
X HE WAS SAD.
1 Bird: Great
<• Ejafy Scott! What's
.—happened?
j«.; B Porcupine:
"t 'iL dinner party
/Ml used me for
toothpicks.
AH! TIS SAD INDEED!
By Wing Dinger
Of all the sad misfortuneg
Such as a rainy day—
A day on which for pleasure
One plans to go away;
Or broken auto axle,
When far away from home.
Tve got the worst you'll find, friend.
From Jacksonville to Nome.
The tendon of Ach'llles
In my left shaft is sore.
To-day it hurts me so much
That I could fairly roar.
But what pilns me the most is
That when the other dubs
Are playing golf to-morrow,
I'll be home with my clubs.
Efotuttg (Eljai
In his letter to State Librarian
Thomas Lynch Montgomery closing
the work of the State commission
which handled the wonderful celebra
tion of the semicentennial of the battlei
of Gettysburg, Col. Lewis E. Beitler.
who was the moving spirit, states the
purpose of holding together all papers
and materials used in the celebration
as an exhibit in the State Museum.
Yesterday Col. Beitler deposited in the
Museum practically everything in tha
way of a record of the commission
and the celebration. Nothing that haa
ever taken place in Pennsylvania, not
even the centennial at Philadelphia in
1576, has ever been so completely
recorded. A special alcove will bo
made ready for ihe exhibition of the
invaluable collection of autographs,
pictures, medals, flags and other ob
jects and the official papers. In his let
ter to Mr. Montgomery, Col. Beitler.
who began the work under Governor
Edwin S. Stuart, carried it on through
the administration of Governor John
K. Tener and finished it under that of
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh saysj
"In closing my five years' serv
ice in this work there is preserved
in the "archives of the Common
wealth a permanent record of the
great reunion of the Blue and the
Gray on Gettysburg's historic
field, that thus made readily ac
cessible may merit, I sincerely
hope, the interest now of many of
the direct participants in that
great and historic event who are
fast entering the twilight of life's
journey and that also may prove
in the future of interest to those
who "coming after" may so
cherish all the more the history of
valorous deeds at Gettysburg In
viewing the record of this recon
ciliation, this reunion of a nation
by the same brave men on that
same field a half a century after
and that stands unparallelled In
the world's history."
Tn the fine collection of pictures ot
the reunion, some of which have been
published in Europe, there was a group
of sixty pictures made by Robert P.
Gorman, who was the Telegraph's staff
photographer at the reunion celebra
tion. The first book issued by the
State on the reunion contained about
thirty of the pictures taken by Mr,
Gorman and published in the Tele
graph. These pictures are notable for
the "action" which they show and
form a valuable part of the record
preserved for posterity at the Capitol,
It's funny what people can do with
their hands when they must. Yester
day an automobile in trying to cross
the excavations for new tracks in
Second street at State got in the
wrong place and sagged down into the
trench. About half Ihe car was in
the trench and the man in charge was
somewhat perturbed. He acted as
though he had to make a train or aid
a dying relative. Finally, he got out
his jack and made efforts, strenuous
ones for a warm October afternoon, to
move the car to a point where it could
go oft under its own power. Some of
the men came to help and for ten
minutes they futilely worked with the
jack. Just about that time on* of the
men in another gang who had been
looking on remarked:
"Say. boys, let's get that auto out
on the road."
Six men mobilized, picked up the
car and put it down in the street five
feet from the trench.
The driver was so nettled that he*
drove off leaving his jack.
* * ♦
Harry Newman, who attended thq
recent Grand Army encampment at
Washington, avers that Pennsylvania
had the call at the national capital
and that the boys in blue from the
Keystone State appeared to be more
numerous than those from any other
comm,onwealth. He says that Penn
sylvania badges were in demand and
some of them commanded substantial
prices. Pennsylvania, says Mr. New
man, was as popular as In 1861 and
1862 at Washington.
• • •
Among visitors to the citv yester
day was Frank R. Von Tackv, who was
a member of the Legislature from
Crawford county a few years ago. Tie
met a number of friends at the capitol.
| WELL KNQWNPEOPLE |
—Judge Norris S. Rarratt, of Phlla
deli*iia, has been made a thirty-third
degree Mason.
—George H. McFadden, the Penn
sylvania's new director, is one of the
big cotton merchants of the country.
—The Rev. W. H. Zeigler, who was
an Alaskan mislonary, has been chosen
a director at Lehighton.
—C. D. Wettach, Pittsburgh manu
facturer, will be given a degree by the
University of Pittsburgh.
—A. J. Bisler, western Pennsylvania
hardware man, says there will be a big
boom at the end of the war.
—Director C. S. Hubbard of Pitts
burgh's public safety, will study the
way they do it in New York.
| DO YOU KNOW
That tlic city's treatment of
Paxton crock has been an eye
openor for some other cities?
HISTORIC HARRHSBURG
A regiment was mobilized here
for the whisky insurrection and
Washington came here to inspect
it on his way west.
IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of Oct. 15, 1915.]
Free I'anwnge For Firemen
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
granted the Hope Fire Company mem
bers free passage to-day on their trip
to the convention in Philadelphia.
Imnilngrnnt'M rlilld Die*
The child of an Immigrant enroute to
the West, died to-day on a train com
ing to this city. The infant was turned
over to local authorities by the rail
road for burial.
Typhoid at York ,
York dispatches report that typhoid
fever is increasing in that town, and
in parts of the county.
Patronize Dealers
Who Serve You
The store that gives you what
you want, when you ask for it
and which charges fixed, fair
prices, is the store to patronize.
If you see an article advertised
in this newspaper and then see
the goods in a retailer's window
you know the merchant is a live
storekeeper. '
You know he is up-to-date
that he reads the newspapers.
You know that when you ask
for the newspaper advertised ar
ticle by name yqu will get it.
You know that the store
keeper puts "service first" in his
lexicon of business.